Are there any holes in MS Windows 8?
A while ago, a friend was staring at the screen of the only Windows box in the house, daydreaming, really, when IT appeared.
Through no fault of said friend, a blue Windows Activation screen popped up, and in huge white, or so he recalled the color later, letters "Activate" could be seen.
Then the screen disappeared.
Gone in two or so blinks of a lazy eye.
Did Microsoft not tell the world about changes to the activation? A search on behalf of the friend came up with interesting pages about the "rearm" command but nothing on the mystery screen.
Was the friend imagining things, seeing an activation screen that kind of looked like the one from XP because this image had been seared into his mind in a decade of XP activation on multiple physical and virtual machines?
After some questioning, it turned out that his Windows 8 box had just had its first anniversary.
Did the programmers at MS put in an Easter Egg?
Our guess is, the man was not daydreaming but fast asleep.
If you have another explanation, please share.
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